据占领华尔街官方网站消息,昨天晚上12月2日,因为营地被美国政府摧毁,数百名占领西雅图的支持者占领了一个空置的准备拆迁并用于公寓建设的仓库。在进入之后,占领者们清除了路障、举行了常规集会并开始计划修缮这个空间用于社区使用。
与遍及全美国和全世界的建筑物占领运动一样,西雅图的对仓库的占领标志了占领运动进入到一个新阶段。面对美国政府对于公共营地的协调打击,占领者们正在转移到室内。在12月6日将要进行的“占领我们的家的全美国行动日”的领导下,从洛杉矶到明尼阿波利斯、亚特兰大、波士顿的占领运动正在将闲置的建筑转变为社区普遍持有的资源,并且保卫家园,以避免被收回和可预见的驱逐。
在十一月初,美国政府拥有的住房抵押贷款公司房利美收回并威胁将一名美国警官和他的家人清除出他们位于亚特兰大郊区的家。在13个月的法庭战斗之后,这家人向占领运动求助。占领亚特兰大在这家的前院搭起了帐篷,并在走廊上打出横幅“这家已经被占领”。
紧接着,在克里夫兰的一位单身母亲向当地的占领者们寻求帮助。占领克里夫兰在她们家院子里面搭起了帐篷并且发誓不离开,除非她被允许在此拘留。因此,美国当地法院发出了暂时不执行清除的裁决。
在占领波特兰的营地被清除2天之后,大约15名占领波特兰的成员转入到一个空的、被收回的家里面。这个家位于波特兰的东北,产权属于美洲银行。在里面,占领者们提出了一个容纳30个人在家中居住的计划,安排了烹饪和其他公共责任,鼓励其他的人们采取类似的行动,为了应对美国警察的行动,他们还计划了法律预案。美国警察采用破门而入的方式进入房屋,并将他们赶走。两人被捕,其余获准离开。社区内有不少居民都对占领者持支持态度。此外,在波特兰美国警察突击搜查了三个空置住房,这些房屋已经被支持占领华尔街运动的各自为战的无政府主义者占领。
11月19日,尽管被逮捕,占领明尼阿波利斯还是围绕着一个将要被收回的房子形成人链。美国警察最终放弃并离开。11月21日,数百名支持者加入占领波士顿,并且对收回房屋进行了抗议。他们在美国银行进行静坐的时候,有15人被逮捕。
正如我们所报道的,占领哥伦比亚解放了一个没有被使用的学校,这个学校以前是一个无家可归者的收容所,他们正在试图打开它以供社区使用;在纽约的新学校、教堂山和奥克兰德占领者已经占领了市中心的建筑物;占领伦敦已经将一个空的办公室变成了“思想的银行”。
在费城,一位母亲和她的孩子们被从他们的家中逐出,并向占领费城寻求帮助。11月17日,费城占领运动大会一致通过了一项决议:将房子夺回并保卫它。占领芝加哥举行宣讲会,要求开放闲置空间,占领土地,以及抵制银行回收抵押的房屋。占领明尼阿波利斯已经开始讨论占领新的房屋的计划。
Last night, undeterred by the city"s destruction of their original encampment, hundreds of Occupy Seattle supporters occupied a vacant warehouse slated for demolition and condo development. After entering, Occupiers erected barricades, held a General Assembly, and began plans to fix up the space for community use.
Using SWAT teams and a ladder truck, police swarmed the warehouse, making 20 arrests and setting an unsettling precedent for the escalating use of military-style tactics against nonviolent occupiers who are liberating public space.
Occupy Seattle is currently holding a jail solidarity action in front of the King County jail and are requesting all their supporters show up!
Like similar building occupations across the country and the globe, Seattle"s occupation of the 10th and Union warehouse signals a new stage of the Occupy movement. Facing a coordinated crackdown on public encampments, occupiers are moving indoors. In the lead up to December 6th, the National Day of Action to Occupy Our Homes, Occupations from Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Atlanta to Boston are turning empty and unused buildings into commonly-held resources for our communities, and defending homes from foreclosure and forcible eviction.
In early November, government-owned mortgage company Fannie Mae foreclosed and threatened to evict a police officer and his family from their home suburban Atlanta. After a 13-month court battle, the family requested help from Occupiers. Occupy Atlanta set up tents in the front yard and draped a banner reading "This Home is Occupied" over the porch.
Shortly afterward, a single mother in Cleveland asked her local Occupiers for help. Occupy Cleveland pitched tents in the yard and vowed not to leave unless she was allowed to stay. As a result, a local court issued a temporary stay on the eviction.
Two days after Occupy Portland"s camp was evicted, around 15 members of Occupy Portland moved in to a vacant, foreclosed home in Northeast Portland owned by Bank of America. Inside, the Occupiers outlined a plan to house up to 30 people in the home, arranged cooking and other communal responsibilities, encouraged others to take similar action, and planned a legal response in case of police action. Police used a battering ram to enter and evict them. Two people were arrested and the rest allowed to leave. Many residents of the community were supportive of the occupation. Also in Portland, police raided three vacant homes that had been occupied by anarchists acting autonomously in support of Occupy Wall Street.
On November 19th, in spite of arrests, Occupy Minneapolis formed a human chain around a family"s home and prevented the foreclosed house from being boarded up. The police eventually gave up and left. On Nov. 21st, Occupy Boston joined hundreds of allies to protest foreclosures. 15 people were arrested during a sit-in at a Bank of America.
As we"ve already reported, members of Occupy DC liberated an unused school that had previously been a homeless shelter and attempted to open it for community use; Occupations at the New School in New York, Chapel Hill and Oakland have occupied downtown buildings; and Occupy London has turned a vacant office building into a "Bank of Ideas."
In Santa Cruz, autonomous Occupiers entered an unused bank branch and, issuing the following statement, claimed it under California"s adverse possession laws:
Today, the building at 75 River St. has been adversely possessed. No longer will the property exist only as an empty parking lot and a vacant building with a sign re-directing people to Wells Fargo across the street. It will be repurposed and used to benefit the community instead of Cassidy Turley, the large-scale commercial real estate company currently leasing the building, and Wells Fargo bank.
Instead of an empty space, there will be a space for community teach-ins, an open library, and discussion forums. The space will be offered to Occupy Santa Cruz as an opportunity to have a roof over its head and allow for more organization to take place. The space will be safe, non-violent, non-destructive and welcoming. The building will be a forum for individuals in the community to learn from one another, and help the Occupy movement grow.
Elsewhere in California, Occupy Los Angeles disrupted a foreclosure auction bidding outside a courthouse. Occupiers chanted "shame on you!" and "banks got bailed out, we got sold out."
from the LA Times
In Philadelphia, a mother and her children who had been evicted from their home came to Occupy Philly for help. On November 17th, the Philly General Assembly unanimously passed a proposal to get the house back and defend it. Occupy Chicago has held teach-ins on reclaiming open and unused spaces, land occupation, and foreclosure resistance. Occupy Minneapolis has begun discussions on occupying new homes.
We anticipate even more amazing stories of liberated buildings on December 6th!
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